Innovations for Poverty Action
For Support Of The ImpactMatters Project
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Amount$100,000
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Program
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Date Awarded2/9/2016
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
ImpactMatters is a new nonprofit founded by Yale economist Dean Karlan to solve two critical gaps in the nonprofit sector. First, nonprofits that want to be more evidence-based in their work often do not have the expertise or guidance to figure out how. Second, while we now know a lot more than a few decades ago about what does and does not work, for example to increase literacy or reduce child deaths, it is often difficult to map that evidence-base to nonprofits. Impact Matters will offer "impact audits" to nonprofits to (1) give them feedback about how they can improve their work, and (2) certify evidence-based nonprofits to funders. The project is being run out of IPA while ImpactMatters gets its 501c3 status.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.poverty-action.org
Address
101 Whitney Avenue Second Floor, New Haven, CT, 06510, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for implementing and evaluating the impact of a peer-to-peer teaching model in Kenya
Many first, second, and third graders in Kenya are struggling to learn to read. This grant to Innovations for Poverty Action would continue to support the evaluation of a simple, low-cost method to improve reading achievement in which sixth graders tutor second and third graders to help them become more fluent readers.
for evaluating a remedial primary school re-entry program in Mali
The grant to Innovations for Poverty Action to evaluate Speed Schools, a particular instructional model in Mali, represents a convergence of QEDC investments and strategies: local capacity building and rigorous assessment. This grant will answer the questions whether and why Speed Schools work as well or better than government schools and, if so, why?
for evaluating a remedial primary school re-entry program in Mali
Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) is evaluating Speed Schools in Mali supported by a March 2012 grant from the Foundation. Speed Schools compress the first three years of primary school into one year and bring out-of-school rural children and youth into fourth grade in government schools. IPA used census data to find out-of-school children. The data were inaccurate and this supplemental grant supports IPA’s unanticipated costs to re-survey and re-test in communities with sufficient numbers of out-of-school children. The communities in this study are not affected by the conflict in northern Mali; nevertheless IPA and the Foundation are closely monitoring the situation and developing contingency plans in case the situation deteriorates.
